The wireless card stopped working on my HP DV6040US laptop about a month ago. It happened quite suddenly. Whatever the wireless switch position, the wireless LED would remain red instead of turning blue when wireless was ON. On top of that, the wireless adapter was no longer detected by the operating system (Windows Vista, XP and Linux).

I searched online and saw many reports with similar problems, with no solution other than sending the laptop to HP for repairs. In my case, that wasn’t the best option since I purchased the laptop in the US and I am now back in India. The laptop is still under warranty. So, today, I finally decided to contact HP online chat support.

I got through to a person named ‘Billy’ (Bill Gates? Naa 😉 he doesn’t work for HP!). I described the problem, provided the laptop serial number and model number. He then asked me to try the following.

1) Enter BIOS setup and restore defaults.

2) Do a BIOS reset by opening up the memory cover of the laptop and disconnecting the BIOS/RTC battery for 5 minutes. (The laptop must be disconnected from mains and the laptop battery should be removed before performing this procedure).

(1) didn’t help. But (2) worked!

After I reset the BIOS and put everything back together, I entered BIOS setup, set the correct date & time, re-started the laptop and booted into Windows Vista. This time, when I switched on wireless, the LED turned blue! And it connected to my wireless network perfectly!

Thinking back, it seems to me that this problem started right around the time I upgraded the BIOS to F.28. HP should clearly do a better job of the BIOS upgrade!

Here is a link to the HP support manual for dv6000 series laptop with instructions on how to open any part of the laptop.

Thanks to the HP support rep, I was able to get the wireless working on my laptop again.

Update: Well, the problem recurred after the next reboot. I contacted HP support again and they weren’t of much help this time other than saying that I restore the laptop using the HP restore DVDs. That wasn’t an option in my case (I don’t like their craplets… I always do a clean install). But, I decided to download and install Windows Vista specific chipset and VGA drivers for the notebook from the HP support web site. And, the wireless is working again! I have rebooted a couple of times and the wireless keeps coming back up… so, hopefully this is a permanent fix. I am surprised that this is a chipset/VGA driver issue because the drivers I previously had were from Windows Update and they are the latest WHQL drivers!

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I use both IE7 B3 and Firefox 2 Beta (BonEcho) to surf the web. I used to use Firefox more than IE. Since Windows Live Mail wouldn’t work with BonEcho, I started using IE more.

Today after I downloaded the nightly build, I thought I would try something to get Windows Live Mail to work with BonEcho. It’s a pretty simple change and it worked! All I had to do was change the user agent string (this is the string that identifies what browser it is).

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Although everyone is talking about this new application/service in the Windows Live family, what no one has noticed (or has cared to report) is that this is the first Windows Live branded application built using Microsoft .NET development platform.

Why doesn’t the Technology sub-section have "Microsoft"? It has "Apple", "Linux,Unix" and a bunch of other general sections, but no "Microsoft"!

Seriously… why not? When you consider that most of the traffic comes from people using Windows OS and at least half of the traffic from Internet Explorer, and when you consider Microsoft’s position in the technology industry, it’s really sad to see Digg stoop to a low level and not even list Microsoft in the sub-categories under Technology. Looks like even the founders are very anti-Microsoft.

A bunch of Microsoft haters gather around and all they do is submit negative articles about that company. And they put a negative spin on even the most positive articles about the company. Digg has become an anti-Microsoft promotional site. It’s really sad.

I think I have a new term for these people (anti-Microsoft): "Technology Terrorists"

The only reason I am not running Windows Vista beta/CTP is because my laptop is incapable of doing so. (I have been out of my home for more than 3 months now – my desktop had the Feb CTP installed. Will get right back on Vista beta the moment I return back!)

The area selection is even easier if you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, just click it in and drag and it works like the Alt key.
Also you can use that to quickly zoom in and out by scrolling up and down with the wheel.

Also the best update I feel was the inclusion of UK data (aerial images, birds eye images and business information) seeing as there was only road data before.
Hopefully they will include other countries soon so they get a larger user base.